Here are some URL's -- the bad and ugly first, then the good, then the bad and ugly again. That's just how it is. Thanks to everyone who contributed. politics Congressional Republicans like the screwed-up election system just fine http://www.tnr.com/050701/editorial050701.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/e98/shapiro/534.htm having admitted that they were wrong, the decent thing would be to resign http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/politics/04FLOR.html their plans make no sense -- they are either extremists or fools http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/opinion/04FRI1.html http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33769-2001May2.html Grover Norquist: "Field Marshal" of the Bush Plan http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010514&s=dreyfuss Indefensible Missiles http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,481609,00.html Where Are the Media as Bush Redefines Himself, and Us http://www.sacbee.com/voices/news/voices06_20010503.html The Bashing: So Subtle It's Undetectable http://www.latimes.com/print/calendar/20010430/t000036395.html Tabloids Could Be President Bush's Undoing http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/wed/edi/woplyons2.asp to be effective, the lies must be repeated and repeated http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/122/oped/Gore_in_2004_That_s_a_toughie_for_Democrats+.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/30/business/30GORE.html more PR techniques of right-wing think tanks http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/04/25/ Louisiana Calls Darwin a Racist http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/05/04/darwin/ One Hundred Days of Idiots http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/idiotlist.html everything else (good) paper on digital patient records in historical perspective http://www.bmg.eur.nl/smw/m_berg/Documenten/Bodies.doc FAA Offers Wireless Access to Airport Delay Data http://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/05/04/faa.wireless/ World Congress of Citizens Network, Buenos Aires, 5-7 December 2001 http://www.globalcn2001.org/ Dissecting the Digital Divide http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw/dd.pdf interesting data-visualization on a commercial site (uses Java) http://www.smartmoney.com/onebond/index.cfm?story=yieldcurve http://www.smartmoney.com/marketmap/ New Media Research Centers http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=493 Ambient Intelligence http://www.research.philips.com/generalinfo/special/ambintel/ article about the virtues of online scientific publishing http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/science/01ARCH.html?pagewanted=all Pervasive Computing News and Developments http://ebiquity.org/ Japanese Products Map the Mobile Road Ahead http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010429.html special section on museums http://www.nytimes.com/library/arts/050201museum-index.html The Metropolitan New Economy Index http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=107&subsecid=123&contentid=3269 everything else (bad and ugly) Zimbabwe News http://www.zwnews.com/ Rich in Cash and Prestige, UNext Struggles in Its Search for Sales http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i34/34a03301.htm another slick Microsoft attack on open source http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/03SOFT.html US Courts annual report on wiretaps, especially wireless http://www.uscourts.gov/wiretap00/2000wttxt.pdf FBI "Hack" Raises Global Security Concerns http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-202-5785729.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082126,00.html FBI trying to make Independent Media Center turn over its logs http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=36912&group=webcast http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/05/02/fbi_web/ Dot-Com Sign from Former .com Business Lobby! http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1136019442 Afghani Demolition of Ancient Religious Symbols http://www.twf.org/News/Y2001/0316-Bamiyan.html Age Discrimination Is Killing High Tech http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2714163-2,00.html Co-Founder of Earthlink Is Sued for Fraud http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/03EART.html Web site of people laid off from CNN http://TedsTurnovers.com/ The Big Business of Body Parts http://www.pilotonline.com/special/bodyparts/ end
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